Jose E. Manautou PhD

Dr. Manautou obtained his BS in Pharmacy from the University of Puerto Rico and Ph.D. in Pharmacology and Toxicology at Purdue University. He joined the University of Connecticut, School of Pharmacy as an assistant professor in 1995, became an associate professor in 2001, and was promoted to full professor in 2011. He has been serving as assistant dean for research and graduate education since 2013 and interim department head since 2016 and became the School of Pharmacy Department Head of Pharmaceutical Sciences in 2020.

He is recognized internationally as a scholar and leader in toxicology. His long-term research interests are on biochemical and molecular mechanisms of xenobiotic-induced hepatotoxicity and on defining compensatory responses to liver injury leading to toxicant adaptation and tolerance. He has published over 200 original research articles, abstracts, commentaries, and other reports. His involvement in national and international professional service is extensive. He has done a significant peer review of extramural and intramural science for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), having just completed a three-year term as a member of the National Advisory Environmental Health Sciences Council. He has also been a member of three different committees for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

He previously served as councilor of the Society of Toxicology (SOT). He also previously served as associate editor of Toxicology and Applied Toxicology for fourteen years and is the co-editor-in-chief of the journal Current Opinions in Toxicology. Dr. Manautou is also a member of the editorial board of seven other journals in the fields of toxicology, pharmacology, drug metabolism, and gastrointestinal pathophysiology. He is a member of the Board of Trustees for the Health and Environmental Sciences Institute (HESI), and the president-elect of the International Union of Toxicology.